to whom they were
assimilated in lustful character.

Sunday, 4 March 2018

"...long ago in 1945." The last words of Muriel Spark's acute, wicked novel The Girls of Slender Means, published in 1963, eighteen years after the period in which the book is set. It is as though Spark knew this book would be read long after it was written (18 years ago is, of course, just yesterday for those of us approaching 60).